Easel



May 5, 1931. E. L. SHANHOLTZER 1,803,511

EASEL Filed Nov. 4, 1929 IN VENTOR A TTORNEK? Patented May 5, 1931 PATENT F C If EARL-Ii. snannomznn, or HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA EASEL Application as November 4, 1929. semi no. 4o4,c53.'

This invention relates to an easel for displaying cards, such as photographs. It is the principal object ofthe present invention to provide-a sheet of form retaining material such as cardboard having slits and "cuts whereby a leg for holding the sheet in upright position, a brace for the leg, interlocking means to hold the brace and leg in position and means to support the card to be displayed.

are provided. The present invention contemplates a single sheet which is cut and slit to provide a structure which may quickly and readily be manipulated to place it in easel shape. A further object of this invention is 'to provide an inexpensive article of the character described which may be transported through the mail in an envelope.

These objects together with other-objects wand corresponding accomplishments are obtained by means of the embodiment of my invention illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which p A,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the face of my article arranged in easel form; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the back of the easel ;-Fig. 3

is a face View of the sheet before manipulation of the parts to provide an easel; and Fig. 4

is a fragmentary view as seen on the plane -indicated by the line H of Fig. 3.'

0 Referring more particularly to Fig. 3, a sheet of cardboard 5 is punched to provide a tongue 6 having its root at about the middle of the sheet. A circular opening is cut as indi- ..cated by 7, it being disposed adjacent the tip "of the tongue 6. Below the tongue 6 another tongueextending from root to tip in the same direction is cut, the root being near the marginal portion of the card. Tongue 8 has at ...its tip end an enlargement 9 so that shoulders "10 are provided. The enlargement 9 is of a transverse width greater than the diameter of the hole 7. Slits 11 are cut in the card diagonally to receive the corners of the photo- :graph or display card.

" The sheet is punched so that in its initial form, the sheet is flat and merely out. To place the article in easel form, the tongue 6 is bent outward and back toward the sheet and the disk pressed out to provide the opening 7,.

56 The tongue 8 is then upset, the enlarged head 7 9 being bentso as to be passed through the.

opening 7, whereupon it resumes its flat shape spanning the opening 7 and serving to interlock the brace 8 and the strut 6. The article is then in form for receivingthe display card or photograph which is marked 12. The core ners of the display card are inserted in the slitsll. I I

The present invention hasa field of utility, wherein photographs of celebritiesaresent out in quantities With .these photographs; may be included the sheet forming the present V invention andwhichmay be manipulated to. provide an easel to support the photograph. 1 Obviously, the easelis inexpensive, simple, easily transported and subject to expeditious and easy arrangement into easy form. I

What Iclaimis:. v Z 1. 'An article ofmanufacture toserve as an easel comprising a single sheet of for e.

taining material having means on, the face to support acard to be displayed, a first tonguecut in said sheet'with'its' root a'djacent the mid section ofsaid sheet and adapted to be bent outward and serve as a strut to support said. sheet in upright position, an opening adjacentthe. tip of said tongue, a second tongue out in said sheet in alinement V with saidfirst' tongue and adapted to be bent outwardto engage said first tongue and serve, as a brace, said second tongue havingan enQ largement at its tip for passage through said opening and toispanthe latter forming a 10. 1; therewith V 3 2. An article of manufacture to ser'veiasan easel comprising a: single sheet of for'm retaintaining material having means'on the face to. support a'c'a'rd to be displayed, a first tongue cut in said sheet with its root adjacent the mid section of said sheet and adapted to be; bent outwardand serve as a strut to support said sheet in an upright position, an opening adjacent the'tip of said tongue, a second. tongue cut in said sheet in alinement with said first tongue extending in the same direc-- tion fromtip to root as said'first' tongue and adapted to be bent outward to engage said first tongue and serve as a brace, said second tongue having an enlargement for passage ice" through said opening and to span the latter forming a lock between said tongues.

3. An article of manufacture to serve as an easel comprising a single sheet of form retaining material having means on the face to support a card to be displayed, a first tongue out in said sheet with its root adjacent the. mid section of said sheet and adapted to be bent outward and serve as a strut to support said sheet in an upright position, a circular opening adjacent the tip otsaidtongue, second tongue out in said sheet in alinement with said first tongue and adapted to be bent outward to engage said first tongue and serve as a brace, said second tongue being enlarged laterally and of a transverse width greater than the diameter of said opening.

4. An article of manufacture to serve as an easel comprising a single sheet of form retaining material having slits to receive the corners of a card to be displayed, a first tongue out in said sheet with its .root adjacent the mid section of said sheet and adapted to be bent outward and serve as a strut to support said sheet in upright position, an opening adjacent the tip of said tongue, a second tongue cut in said sheet in alinement with said first tongue and adapted to be bent outward to engage said first tongue and serve as a brace, I said second tongue having an enlargement at its tip for passage through said opening and to span the latter forming a lock there with.

5. An article of manufacture to serve as an easel comprising a single sheet of form retaining material having slits to receive the corners of a card to be displayed, a first tongue out in said sheet'with its root adjacent the mid section of said sheet and adapted to be bent outward and serve as a strut to support said sheetin an upright position, an opening adjacent the tip of said tongue, a second tongue out in said sheet spaced from and extending in the same direction from tip 7 to root as said first tongue and adapted tovbe bent outward to engage said first tongue and serve as a brace, said second tongue having an enlargement for passage through said opening and to span the latter forming a lock between said tongues.

6. An article of manufacture to serve as an easel comprising a single sheet of form retaining material having slits to receive the corners of a card to be displayed, a first tongue out in said sheet with its root adjacent the mid section of said sheet and adapted to v be bent outward and serve as a strut to support'said sheet in an upright position, a circular opening adjacent the tip of said tongue, a second tongue out in said sheet in alinement with said first tongue and adapted to be 7 bent outward to engage said first tongue and serve as a brace, said second tongue being enlarged laterally and of a transverse width greater than the diameter of said opening.

7. An article of manufacture to serve as an easel comprising a single sheet of cardboard having slits to receive the corners of a card to be displayed, a first tongue out in said sheet with its root adjacent the mid section of said sheet and adapted to be bent outward and serve as a strut to support said sheet, a circular opening adjacent to tip of said tongue, a second tongue out in said sheet in alinement with said first tongue extending in the same direction from tip to root as said first tongue and adapted to be bent outward to engage said first tongue and serve as a brace, said second tongue being enlarged laterally and of a transverse width greater than the diameter of said opening for a passage through said opening and to lock said tongues together.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I -have hereunto subscribed my name this 25th day of October, 1929. i

EARL L. SHANHOLTZER.- 

